Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,729, Benjamin Floyd, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
R. J
Floyd, Benjamin Martha
W. 14,729
CONTENTS

15.014
Massachusetts
Benjamin Floyd
of Upton in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded Colonel Hitchcock of the R Island line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 31 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sep 1818 and Sub to Image John Davis Boston Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 . 137.31 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar. 1820 . 48.00 17 Mo 4/30  $185.31
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Notification sent to Abr m Biglow Esq
Oct 13. 1820
Cambridge - Mass.
Dead. See letter to A. Bartlett, May 20. 1837. do to same 3 d June 1837.
Not to the New York Times 2/1/38

Nottingham Dist to Mr. Byles Esq Oct 13. 1820
Cambridge
Mar 25.
Dead. See letter to A. Bartlett, May 20. 1837. Do to same 3 rd June 1837.
let to Hunt Jackson 29 th Apr 1836

1637 Massachusetts
Martha Floyd widow of Benjamin Floyd dec d
who died on the 2 October 1823 of Middlesex Co. in the State of MASS D who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t commanded by Col. Hatchcock in the R.I. Island line for 18 months R.I.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass n at the rate of 00 Dollars 00 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of March 1837 and sent to her Barkett, Medford Mass a
Arrears to the 14th of Sept r 1837 $390.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 1 st Mar 38- 30.00
$420.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by W.H. Addison Clerk Book 8 Vol. 2 d Page 50

Benjamin Hoz, Nov. 13. 1860

Macomb, Ill, November 6 1866
To the Com. of Pensions Washington D. C.
Dear Sir some time I received a notice that a Pension was due to the surviving heirs of Benjamin Floyd who, in the Revolutionary War said Benjamin Floyd was my father I was well assured that he ought to have received something in his life time but he never received any thing not even the land that was due to him, I am his only surviving child and should there be any amount due it would be quite acceptable to me in my old age my father volunteered in Oxford Massachusetts, served under Gen. Washington, Sir will you please to inform me if there is any thing due to my father deceased or his heirs, likewise what steps I shall take to obtain it. Yours most respectfully, Benj. Floyd

No 108
Benjamin Floyd y 6 to 77 Hitchcock R. Island Regt
Admitted
Boston Aug. 2. 1819
The within deposition of John Munn was trans- mitted to me by Gov. Brooks, in behalf of the applicant. The Justice Magistrate has not testified as to the credibility of the witness, but considering the rank of witness & respectable source from which I rec d the document, I transmit it for consideration not- withstanding of course, con- sideration R.D.

I Benjamin Floyd of Medford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth a native & resident Citizen of the U States wealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I served as a private in the Army of the United States one year in the war of the Revolution, that I enlisted into the company of foot commanded by Capt. Spurr in the Providence Regiment commanded by Col. Hitchcock in January seventeen hundred and seventy six and continued to serve therein twelve months that is until January seventeen hundred and seventy seven when I was discharged and paid off. my discharge is lost by accident that I cannot now produce it
Benj n Floyd
Myrtle Dist. P. Boston 31 March 1818
Sworn to before me M c Alister Dist. Judge

To the Hon John Davis Judge of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts
The Subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Medford Doherty certify that we having seen the foregoing statement signed by Benjamin Floyd give full credit to the same and are fully of opinion, that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life the said Floyd stands in need of assistance from his country for his support and that he is a habitant of said Town of Medford & a resident citizen of the United States March 30. 1818 Luther Hearn Thatcher Magoun for the Selectmen of the Town of Medford
I fully concur in the opinion of the Selectmen as above ex- pressed — A. Bartlett Justice of the peace
JB
See certificate from Town Clerk as to the number & names of the Select- men of Medford filed in John Burridge's Affidavit

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston September 22 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Benjamin Floyd subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
J. D. Dyer
} Judge of the District Court U. S. } Massachusetts District.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
July 3 d
1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Benjamin Floyd by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M Davis
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss.
On this seventh day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before Samuel P. Fay judge of Probate the Court of Probate within and for the said County of Middlesex Martha Floyd a resident of Medford in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836 that she is the widow of Benjamin Floyd late resident in said Town of Medford who served as a private in the Army of the United States in the war of the revolution three years or upwards commencing about March 1780. in the company commanded by Capt. Spurr but in what regiment

or under what Colonel or other Officers she cannot say
She also further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Floyd on the seventh day of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine that the said Benjamin Floyd then belonged to the said Town of Medford & was known & called by the name of Benjamin Floyd Junior there being then another person residing in said Town of the same name older than her said husband.
That her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Hale Floyd died at said Medford on the second day of October in the year eighteen hundred and twenty three and that she has remained a widow ever since that event that he was a pensioner at the time of his death under the law of 1818 on account of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution which services will appear by inspection of the rolls or records of the army but the exact time & the Regiment in which he served she is unable particularly to state &
Reside in Cambridge — Martha Floyd
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid before me — J. P. Gay J. Root

And the said judge of Probate does hereby certify, after examination of said declarant & full investigation of the matter, his opinion that the statement by her made as aforesaid is true & that the said Martha Floyd is a respectable & credible person
J. P. May Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. I Isaac Pitkin Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that James M'Pherson Commonwealth of said County certify that James M'Pherson whose own proper signature is here written on the foregoing Paper is the judge of said Court of Probate duly commissioned & qualified; I also certify that Abner Dabbett is a justice of the Peace in & for said County of Middlesex duly commissioned & qualified & that his signatures written on the certificates to the depositions of Andrew Blanchard & Nathan West, & Oliver Blake, hereunto annexed are his genuine signatures. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of February AD 1837. Isaac Pitkin Reg

Benj m Floyd Jun r & Martha Savels both of Medford was married by the Rev d Mr s Osgood Jan y the seventh, one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine. the above is a true copy of the record on the Town of Medford Book of records of Marriages, with the exception of the date, which is exp- -ressed on the record in fair legible figures. as follows "Jan y 7 th 1779" attest Oliver Blake { Clerk of the Town of Medford
I Oliver Blake above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Medford, county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me.
Oliver Blake { Clerk of the Town of Medford
Middlesex Nov r 28. 1837
Sworn before me Abner Bartlett Justice of the Peace

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Benjamin Floyd 15064
Con 7 Sept 79

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Benjamin Floyd resident in Nedford - in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 15064, now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the late a “18th March, 1818, Benjamin Floyd “ Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the “Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight “dollars per month, to commence on the thirty first day of  March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . “Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventh “day of September one thousand eight hundred and  nineteen J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
  7 old desks valued at $3 00   10 chains 4 -   4 old tables 5 -   Old case of drawers 1 -   Crockery & glass ware 3 -   2 looking glasses 3 -   Small shovel plough 1 -   2 iron pots & 2 kettles 1 50   1 spider & skillet 0 75   Tin ware & coffee mill 2 00   3 chairs & 3 flat irons 75 1 75   6 silver tea spoons 2   $28 00   Foot earned over 

Amount brought over is twenty eight dollars
I also further say that I served in the war of the Revolution as follows to wit, I enlisted in Capt Sparre company in Col. Hitchcock's Regt Rhode Island line on the first January 1776 for one year served out the time & was discharged middle of January 1777 which discharge I have lost afterward, I enlisted as an Artificer in the company commanded by Capt. Jedediah Thayer for ten months, and served until a little before the expiration of that term under Col. Baldwin chief engineer of the Northern department and was then honorably discharged which is also lost, I afterwards enlisted for six months, and served in a company commanded by Lt. Stocker in Col. Greaton's Regiment Massachusetts line until regularly discharged.
I am a housewright by trade and have worked at it ever since the war when able but having broken my bones in several instances, I am now from that cause and my age which is sixty seven years last January and other infirmities wholly unable to do any labour at all. I have a wife sixty four years old we keep house but have no children with us in family nor any of ability to assist in our support.
Benj. Floyd.
Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge sc 11

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore . a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
11 I, Benjamin Floyd do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Benj Floyd
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Benjamin Floyd took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
twenty eight dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 28 th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abm Biglow

Oct. 22-1907 Helen T. Wild, Melrose mass.

Certificate issued 7 Sept. 1819 —

Martha Floyd, widow of Benjamin Floyd, at 4 July 1836 3 d section.
Massachusetts -
Rejected. See letters to A. Bartlett & J. Tufts. May 20. 1837 - Do. to A. Bartlett, 3 June 1837 & 17 th Nov' 37

Benp ~ Floyd. Medfuce July 8 1780. at 11 AM 27 wdd. 5 p. 3. light camp. 1. Mar 31 h. 189. 20

Capitola Spence certificate in the case of Benj. Floyd
Mr Benjamin Floyd Welford. Massachusetts on old Revolutionary soldier
that was

W H
M c Benjamin Floyd Medford, Massachusetts an old Revolutionary soldier.
Captain Floyd confined in the care of Mary Floyd

Providence Rhode Island July 27. 1819 I certify that Benjamin Gloyd enlisted in my Company in one of the Rhode Island Continental Regiments Commanded by Col o Daniel Hitchcock in January 1776 for one year, served in my Company one year in said Regiment as a good and faithfull Soldier John Sprague } then Capt in said Regiment
State of Rhode Island Providence ss. Then Col John Sprague came before me and made oath to the above Certificate by him signed Providence July 27 th 1819
Yes Walter Martin 6/88P

State of Rhode Island I Dexter Randall Esquire Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Providence. Do hereby that Abner Austin Esquire is Clerk of Justice of said Court. and that full credit is due to his attestations, and that the within writing is his genuine hand writing in testimony of the truth of which I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of said Court Providence July 27 1819
Dexter Randall

Feb 15-
Buy: Floyd Map vol
due in 1823
7 Sept 19
Comi perunon
Colunus
Col
Hra Mr Jackson HR

Feb 15
Brig Eliz Map note
due in 1893
7 Sept 19
L Edward Ed, Genl Pensions
Hon Mm Jackson HR

House of Rep ts Feb. 13
James L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Will you have the kindness to reply to the questions questions asked in the enclosed letter, direct to me and very much obliged
Very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
William Jackson

Feb 15-
Buy: Floyd Map vol
due in 1893 7 Sept 19
Com. pension
to Edward Col.
How Mr Jackson H.R.

Feb 75-
Brig. Eliz Map note
1893
James
7 Sept 19
L Edward Esq, Genl Pensions
Hon M m Jackson H R

Hous. of Rep s Feb. 13
James L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Will you have the kindness to reply to the questions asked in the enclosed letter, direct to me and very much obliged
Very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
William Jackson

We Andrew Blanchard and Nathan Waitt both.
Inhabitants & residents of the Town of Medford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do severally depose and say that we were personally acquainted with Benjamin Floyd late the husband of Martha Floyd, who is now resident here his widow, that they resided ever after the revolutionary war in this Town of Medford until about October 1823 when he died & the said Martha has remained a widow ever since that event. There were two persons belonging to said Medford by the name of Benjamin Floyd as long as we can remember & the said Benjamin Floyd husband of the said Martha was called & known by the name of Benjamin Floyd Junior until the death of the other Benjamin Floyd which happened some years before the death of Benjamin Floyd Junior.
Andrew Blanchard.
Nathan Waitt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss. In the Town of Medford on this sixth day of February in the year eighteen hundred

and thirty seven personally appeared the said Andrew Blanchard and Nathan Waitt & signed the foregoing affidavit and made oath that the same is true before me one of the Justices of the Peace for said County of Middlesex. I also certify that I am person- ally acquainted with the said Blanchard and Waitt & that they are persons of veracity entitled to full credit.
Abner Bartlett Justice of the Peace.

14 Feb 1289 Abraham Bartlett Cane Martha Flagg Act 4 July 36
Ms. A. 9. 2. 2. 100 Feb. 17
Sylvester
James S. Richards Esquire
Commission of Uniform
Washington City

Medford Me Feb. 20
14 Feb 12 8 Almer P. Bartlett Capt Martha Flagg Act 4 July 36
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James L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Medford Feby. 9. 1837
James L. Edwards Esq.
I have the pleasure to enclose to your case another case of a revolutionary widow. I have added a notice under your hand relating to the Pension enjoyed by her husband which seems has been preserved. & which I thought might possibly aid in finding him on the records of the Army, as she has forgotten the Officers under whom her service except the last.
Respectfully Helen Bartlett

I Miriam Savels of Medford in the State of Massachusetts testify & say that I am the widow of Thomas Savels late of said Medford deceased, that he was a Soldier in the revolutionary war, and that I now enjoy a pension from the United States as his widow by virtue of the act of July 4. 1836— I was well acquainted with Benjamin Floyd the second of said Medford during the revolution and until his death which took place about seventeen years ago he married my husband's sister, Martha Savels who is now living in this vicinity in very destitute and needy circum- stances. Said Floyd's wife lived in the same street & near neighbors to me in the time of the revolution & was very intimate with my husband, they both belonged to the army most of the time. I remember they, with two other soldiers purchased a house on one occasion to carry their baggage on their return to the army, after a furlough. I recollect perfectly, of seeing them rig out the house with the baggage, when they set off for the army. This was after his marriage. I also remember of hearing them talk & laugh together after their return, about the old house & how they sold him & set down seat & drank him up; said Floyd continued in the army a long time after he married. There was another person living in Medford at the time of the revolution by the same name of Benjamin Floyd, who was a man then he was older than the one who married my sister Miriam Savels as aforesaid.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex County Ss. On this twenty ninth day of August in the year 1837. in Medford in said County personally appeared Miriam Sanborn per- sonally known to me whom I certify is a person of veracity entitled to full credit, and sub- scribed the affidavit on the preceding page and made solemn oath to the truth of the same Before me Abner B. Bartlett Justice of the Peace

I James T. Floyd of Medford in the State of Massachusetts bricklayer do testify say that I am the son of Benjamin Floyd late of Medford bricklayer deceased. I am sixty five years old and remember well when my father left home and went into the army, it was on the first day of January 1776. He was gone one year, when he returned on a furlough and went away again in about six weeks and was in the army till the winter of 1778 when he again returned he then hired a man to take his place for one year & removed himself onto a farm in the Town of Lincoln in this County, in the course of this year 1779 my father fell sick & by the assistance of Col. Brooks of Lincoln, & Samuel obtained his discharge from the army and never served in it after the winter of 1778. He was generally employed as an artificer while in the army.
I was well acquainted with Benjamin Floyd junior of Medford who was a cousin of my father & younger. He also went into the army and served most of the war during which time he married Martha Savell, whom I also knew of this Town. I remember of hearing him mention certain particulars which took place upon his coming home on a furlough after his marriage my father Benjamin Floyd senior died in this Town on the seventeenth day of July eighteen hundred and four seventeen. Benjamin Floyd junior died several years afterwards in this Town. There were but two persons whom I ever knew or heard of by that

name, who lived in the town of Medford, at any time of the revolutionary war James T. Floyd
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Middlesex ss. on this twenty eighth day of August 1837 James T. Floyd well known to me the subscriber to be a person of good credit for veracity & intitled to perfect credit personally appeared & subscribed his name to the above written affidavit & made solemn truth to the same. Before me Abner Bartlett Justice of Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. I Elias Thorne Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, do certify that Abner Bartlett Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Middlesex, and that his name subscribed to the two foregoing certificates severally is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court, the first day of September 1837. —
E. Thorne

of Col. Greville's regt. bear the name of Benj. Floyd a heavy artillery on the 8 th July 1780 for a bond; as he himself stated in a letter  mentioned in his declaration before Merthion. He was discharged on the 31 st Dec r 1779 on the 1 st Feb y 1780

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office.
Boston May 27. 1837.
m. d. 349..5 I hereby certify that from the Army Books remaining in this Office, it appears, that Benjamin Floyd of Medford served as a private in Capt. Mills' Company Col. Baldwin's Regiment from 26 th Feby. 1777 to 31. Decem r 1779 thirty four months and five days at 60 s per month, and "for which the nominal sum has been paid him by the Continent."
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth in my custody and possession, on the day of the date above mentioned.
John P. Bigelow
Secy of the Com'tee

May 2 o
May 2 o 1861
May 27 o
J. S. Edwards
Esq.
Commissioner of Customs
Washington
J. S. H.
1163 Mrs. Smith 1287 Floyd 1286 Johnson

Medford Me. Apr. 27-
May 2 o
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington De. b.
Mrs. J. L. Edwards 1287 May 2 o 1206 John 1163

Medford 27 April 1837.
Yrs It was supposed to be proper to address the inclosed Letter to Mr. Parise. The Hon Mr Lawrence of Boston thinks it ought to have been addressed directly to you - as you will see he has done at the bottom of it. I take, therefore the liberty to inclose it to you - Neither Mr Bell or myself have any interest in these claims. We know all the widows & know their husbands - and have no doubt they ought to be granted. - Mr Lawrence says you are overwhelmed with business - but we are induced to urge your attention to these pecuniary - they all being poor, old, & deserving That of the widow of Benj. Floyd cannot require much time, if her papers are in order as I consider her claim nothing more or less than an extension to her of the pension of her husband which he recd until his death. The other widows are equally deserving but their husbands died before Pensions were granted -
Respectfully Your humble servant -
Dwight Tufts
H. L. Edwards Esq Recd

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120-96
War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
Oct r 11 1826.
SIR,
15.064
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Benjamin Floyd Medford Mass.
[Handwritten initials or mark]

June 3
Can Martha T. ... Sister
Mrs Edward Sprague Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

June 3
Can Mr. the Hon. Secy
James Edwards L. Osborn Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Meadford May 29. 1837
James L. Edwards Esq.
Sir I rec d your note of 20 inst. relative to Martha Floyd widow of Ben. Floyd claim to a pension, informing me that "his service was for one year only, viz in 1776. Had not I supposed that you was in possession of the books & Rolls of the army & could easily turn to them to see the period of service of any applicant, I should have procured & forwarded a certificate with the papers, I now transmit a certificate from the Army book, in the Office of the Secretary of the Com te with duly authenticated which I presume will be satisfactory. I also beg leave to refer to the papers, in the war depart ment upon which his claim to a pension under the act of 1818 was made out the certificate of which I also enclose & am Respectfully yours
Abner Bartlett

Medford Nov. 28. 1837
James L. Edwards Esquire.
Sir.
I have recd the return of the widows declaration in the case of Martha Floyd widow of Benjamin Floyd her. a private in the army of the revolution. & a letter from you of 17 th Inst. full of new & surprizing facts, touching the services, or rather the documentary evidence, of the services of the Floyds, which is altogether too deficient & inexplicable for me to think of contending with any longer, and as I see that the Benjamin Floyd 27 years old, 5 ft. 3 inches high, light complexion, mustered at Springfield on 8 July 1780, for 6 months. must have been the husband of the this applicant, from my own personal knowledge of him, the description being perfect. I submit at once to your decision, in compliance therewith, have been to the Judge again with the old lady, today, & she has made a further declaration of the facts referring to that of her husband for his services, which I thought would be better than to interline a reference to that declaration in her old one, especially as I see the objections to interlineations and alterations of papers existing, mentioned in the printed directions for warding

by you, relative to the certificates of Town Clerks & other officers - I have also procured a new certificate of the marriage from the Town Clerk in the form signed - all which I now forward, hoping they will be found to meet your views on the subject. I did not think it would be necessary to procure a new certificate of the genuineness of the Judge's certifi- -cate or my own, supposing that already rendered by the Register of the Court of Probate, to both, would be sufficient - If however that or any thing else should be desirable, please to let me know & it shall be forthwith complied with to the best of my understanding and ability. I am very desirous to have done troubling you on this matter, & have no doubt you will aid me in bringing it to a close in the shortest time a manner practicable.
I am respectfully,
Abner Bartlett
Samuel Edward Esquire Commissioner of Pensions.

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Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Boston Mass. at the U.S. Branch Bank

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Benjamin Floyd late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the Thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
H. Adams
Secretary of War.

Benjamin Floyd's widow's Claim for Pension

Medford Aug. 31. 1837.
James L. Edwards Esquire.
Sir, I beg leave to recall your attention to the application of Martha Floyd, wife of Benjamin Floyd of Medford, for a Pension, under the act of July 4. 1836. In your letter of June 3. on that subject, you observe that "the claim is now renewed on the ground that Floyd served three years ending in Dec r 1779, but the claim must rest on a better foundation, before it can be admitted". As you already hold a certificate from the Secretary of the Commonwealth, of the services of Benjamin Floyd of Medford as a private in Capt. Mills Company Baldwin's regiment from some time in February 1777 to 31. Dec r . 1779, almost a year after his intermarriage with this applicant and as by the 7 th rule of evidence prescribed by the President's discretion with a particular statement of the services in the declaration of the applicant, where they clearly appear in the documentary evidence, I conclude the difficulty in your mind arises from an uncertainty as to the identity; I now enclose two affidavits, which I think must put that matter beyond the reach of any reasonable doubt. In the first place

I cannot suppose any stress is seriously laid, as to the difference, in spelling the name of Floyde with an "i" or a "y," so long as there can be no pretence that that the name is not one & the same.
It is proved by the affidavit of James T. Floyde that only two persons by the name of Benjamin Floyde lived in Medford in the time of the revolution. I presume his affidavit is sufficient to that fact, he being of the family, if however you should wish for more evidence it shall be forth coming on the slightest intimation - he also proves that his father was the oldest of the two Ben. Floydes and that altho. he served in the army several years yet that he left & never returned till after the winter of 1778 probably 31. Decr. in that year. It must therefore be Ben. Floyde Jnr. who is mentioned in the Certificate. They did not I believe use, nor would it have been correct to have used that designation in the army where there was only one of the same name in a company - It is also certain whether the Pension Certificate under the act of 1818 has it so or not, that it must have applied to Benjamin Floyde Jnr. for by the affidavit aforesaid, Benjamin Floyde Senior died in 1817 & could never have rec d . a pension under

That act. It follows therefore I think satisfactorily enough, that the Benjamin Eloyd of Medford, mentioned in the intestates certificate, & he who was petitioned by that name under the act of 1818 could be no other nor different person than the Benjamin Eloyd Junior of Medford, mentioned in the marriage certificate, now in your hands. May Sir, do not suffer a doubt of the truth of any one of these important facts stated in the affidavits, to influence your decision, as you may rely upon it that they will be all established in the most satisfactory manner if you should wish further evidence as to any of them — I forbear Sir, to mention the help- less condition of the claimant, because I believe you to be inaccessible to all such appeals. I only ask an attentive examination of the evidence & merits of the claim here set forth & then 'fairly justice'. Very respectfully I remain Sir your obedt Servt. Abner Bartlett

Martha Floyd Mia of Remy Mass.
Manned 1779
Died 1823
Adm 18mo hi
Hope ann, comf 4 March 1837.
Mass. Coast line Red Great
Abner Bartlett Esq Medford Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Middlesex, Town.
On this twenty eighth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before Samuel P. May, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Middlesex Martha Floyd a resident of Medford in said County of Middlesex aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836, That she is the widow of Benjamin Floyd Junior late of said Town of Medford deceased, that she was lawfully married to the said Floyd on the seventh day of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine at said Medford; That the said Floyd her said husband died at said Medford on the second day of October in the year eighteen hundred and twenty three, and that she has remained a widow ever since.
She also further declares that the said Floyd served in the war of the revolution as a private

both before and after her intermarriage with him as aforesaid, that he received a pension under the act of 1818 on account of said service and had enjoyed the same at the time of his death. That she believes the whole of his services at dif- ferent periods of the revolution, would amount to two years or upwards but she cannot state the names of the officers under whom he served but would refer to the records & returns of the army and more particularly to the statement made by said Floyd touching his said services, in his de- claration, made in the year 1820 now on file in the Pension Office at Washington, for a parti- cular description thereof. Martha Floyd
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year afore- said, at the Probate office in Cambridge as a new or amended declaration by said Martha Floyd.
J. P. Fay Prob. for said estate.

Benj a A. Lloyd Jun r & Martha Savels, both of Medford I was married To the Rev d Mr s Osgood Jan y 7 th 1779
A true copy from the records of marriages in the Town of Medford.
Oliver Blake Town Clerk
Medford Feb y 24 1837
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss. In the Town of Medford on this seventh day of February in the year eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before me the subscriber Oliver Blake who signed the above certificate of marriage and made solemn oath that the same is an exact & true copy from the records in the said Town of Medford now in his custody as the Town Clerk of that Town - and I further certify that the said Blake is well known to me & is a person entitled to full credit for veracity & is the Town Clerk of the said Town of Medford Oliver Bartlett Instead of the same